Monday, October 25, 2010

Video Game Pitch

Hey guys, good news. I managed to get ahold of a meeting with the Activision CEO, and I'm gonna pitch him a project that is sure to sell millions. Here's a sneak peak.
Well first off, the title; As you can see, the title appeals to a wide audience. Also note the "special edition" tag, an absolutely necessary addition. I mean, why else would someone buy a strategy guide and RC car these days?

Moving on… in case you couldn't tell from the title, the game is about a post-apocalyptic war zone in which two groups, the Greasers and the Socs, constantly shoot the guts out of each other for no evident reason (the reason is explained in the companion novel). An excellent premise for multiplayer action! But for those folks who don't like showcasing their lack of skills online, the campaign features 8 extremely long cinematic stages filled with useless achievements, in which you play as the appealing protagonist, Bone X. Ray, pictured below;

Bone is a bad to the bone 35 year old Greaser. His hobbies include origami and knitting. But on the weekends, he's a gritty murderer who fires a barrage of bullets at every passerby, no matter how innocent. He sometimes rips the internal organs out of his victims. Clearly a true role model for our youth. Bone's girlfriend is Katie Iris. Unfortunately her concept art would not be permitted on this PG-level blog, but she's set to appeal to pubescent teens everywhere. Furthermore, Bone carries giant guns everywhere he goes. Below is concept art for a complex gun.

But no game would be complete without online multiplayer action, am I right? You can choose between the Socs and Greasers and face off against up to 128 players at once. The violence is nonstop in this fun-filled game of "who can annihilate the most innocent bystanders". For the less killing inclined, there's another mode in which you scavenge for jewels beneath a pile of corpses. Both modes, however, have the fun power of Xbox Live voice chat, which cannot be turned off ever. And of course, only 4 multiplayer maps are included; the rest will be sold in $35 packs of 5. In conclusion, here's some concept art by our 10 year old focus group member Andy Brown of what he believes the game should look like; we plan to stick to this relatively closely. Missing from this picture, however, is the intense amount of bloom.
I'll be sure to let you guys know how the pitch goes. If everything goes according to plan, the game should hit Xbox 360 and PS3 in close proximity to the next Call of Duty game.

-Bryko

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